Veritasium covers the XZ backdoor in the detail that any person can understand, just as well as they do on many other topics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

@fossdd @ncopa Ah. Well might as well go all the way then. In my experience users are more forgiving of newer software with new bugs than older versions with fixed issues upstream that they have to wait for. YMMV etc :) - I'm a little curious what you end up deciding and why!

@ncopa Not sure if it's a useful datapoint for you. In Debian there was the same question for the next release, and IIRC the decision was to go for Python 3.14, but first upgrade to 3.13 as a step in between to help the transition (currently 3.13 is in unstable / 3.14 in experimental).

@zhenech Good. You didn't need that feature anyway. *ducks*

@Jyoti People who use Medium are bad people.

@reverseics hmm that seems to be 6 months off

@felix For BeOS this was one of it's famous aspects even back in the 90's on a real Pentium!

@pevinkinel Yikes.

@juliank Life is like chocolate. Or something like that.

@littlealex *cough*

@ariadne Yep, I don't know the full history either, but from the context I got in this thread, things sound fixable so I hope it goes into that direction from the Debian side so that it stops causing problems upstream and for users of the package in Debian.

@ariadne That post now walks into conspiracy theory territory there. I know Andrej personally and I think you're assuming a lot more bad faith here than he deserves.

@alienghic @bri7 LFP batteries are quite safe. As in, you can throw them into a fire and they still won't explode, or you can take a pick-axe to them and they won't catch fire. They also last 3-4 times as long.

@Edwin085 A gen z would figure this out in an instant, you just press one of the buttons on the opposite side where the Yes label is missing due to an AI glitch.

@256 Certainly one of the best 4 player PC games of the time

@foone Easy. You get to watch TV when she's finished.

Me too! Hoping to make it out there again some time.

I wish I wasn't too dumb to learn how to use vim properly.

@ComPod @bagder Ah those could be useful for people with rage anxiety

@bugaevc For one, there's been a major shift in priority. 40 years ago the focus was on usability and getting more computer users on board. Now the priority is to make you click on ads.